Tag: Sweden

Sales of arms and military services by the 100 largest companies in the industry reached $592 billion in 2021, a 1.9% increase compared with...

In a time when national and international security is threatened by autocratic influence, creating imbalance in environments through human rights violations and blatant disregard...

Despite the global economy contracting amid the upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the world’s top 100 arms producers increased sales slightly in 2020,...

Last week over a thousand global participants convened virtually for the sixth annual Stockholm Security Conference with the theme "Battlefields of the Future: Trends...

Swedish prosecutors on Thursday brought charges against the chairman and former CEO of Lundin Energy for complicity in war crimes carried out by the...

Last month, a ghostly grey business jet took off from central Sweden and headed across the Baltic on a routine spying mission. The converted Gulfstream,...

Swedish prosecutors said on Tuesday an investigation showed that Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency had carried out serious data secrecy breaches at Sweden’s sports...

Sweden is preparing to deploy about 150 special forces to support the French-led Operation Barkhane in Mali. The Special Forces are getting ready to participate...

Sweden’s government decided to send troops to Mali to join French-led Special Forces fighting militants linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State in the...

Iran released seven of 23 crew of British-flagged tanker Stena Impero seized earlier in July, Sweden’s foreign minister said. The Swedish-owned Stena Impero was...

Britain and Sweden agreed on Friday to study air combat co-operation over the next decade and opened the door to other potential partners in...

Currently, a team of nine officers from Sweden and Finland is in Timbuktu, Mali. The team is called “Nordic Defence Cooperation Mobile Training Team”,...

Denis Mukwege, a doctor who helps victims of sexual violence in Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi rights activist...

Swedish prosecutors accused Democratic Republic of Congo's government of not co-operating with the investigation into the murder of a Swedish UN sanctions...

"In large parts of the world we are seeing further increases in defence spending and bigger investments in civil security than before,"...

The Botswana Defence Force (BDF) is still evaluating its options regarding the acquisition of new fighter jets, in spite of Botswana's President...

Sweden's prime minister paid tribute to a United Nations worker who died in Democratic Republic of Congo, saying those responsible must be...

A Swedish court of appeal on Wednesday upheld the life imprisonment verdict it gave to a man for genocide during the Rwanda...

Defence and Military Veterans Minister, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, this week met with her Swedish counterpart, Peter Hultqvist, to discuss ongoing defence co-operation between...

A Swedish court sentenced on Monday a 61-year-old man to life in prison for genocide in Rwanda in 1994, the second such...

Swedish prosecutors have charged a 60-year-old man with genocide in Rwanda in 1994, the second such case brought by the Nordic country...

A submarine wreck discovered off the eastern coast of Sweden probably dates from World War One rather than last year when the...

The United Nation Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali (Minusma) has received three MD500E helicopters from El Salvador, and will use them...

The Swedish armed forces have for the first time deployed an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with the United Nations in Africa, using...

The Swedish government officially recognised the state of Palestine on Thursday, the first Western European country to do so, reflecting growing international...

Sweden has released a grainy photo of a mysterious vessel in Stockholm's archipelago, as the military hunted for a foreign submarine or...

Sweden has resumed financial aid to Uganda after suspending some assistance in March over a law widely condemned by donor nations that...

The Czech Republic will continue to operate 14 Gripen C/D until at least 2027, with Saab as a sub-contractor to FMV, which provides the aircraft.The...

The defence and security company Saab welcomes the signing of a new Gripen lease agreement between the governments of the Czech Republic and Sweden....

Sweden has suspended some of its financial aid to Uganda over a law that toughened punishment for gays, becoming the fourth donor...

A car bomb exploded outside the Swedish consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Friday, damaging the front of the...

Patria has delivered the first Patria AMV armoured wheeled vehicles to the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV). An agreement signed with the...

Defence and security company Saab welcomes the Swedish government's announcement that it has reached an agreement with Switzerland about the procurement of the next-generation...

The Swedish armed forces have received their first two UH-60 Black Hawks, 18 months after the government ordered 15 of the helicopters...

The Swedish Defence Materiel Administration, FMV, has awarded BAE Systems a £65 million contract to supply 48 BvS10 armoured all-terrain vehicles. The contract...

After 650 missions, almost 2,000 flight hours and more than 150,000 reconnaissance photos, the five Gripen fighters that took part in the...

Sweden's five remaining Gripens taking part in NATO operations over Libya have recently passed the 1000 flight hour mark whilst flying reconnaissance...

Sweden's top migration official is accusing fellow European countries of failing the world's most endangered refugees by offering only minimal opportunities for...